Pictured: Participants smoke during the annual Hash Bash at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Mich. on Saturday, April 4, 2015.

10. University of Michigan.

Pictured: Participants smoke during the annual Hash Bash at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Mich. on Saturday, April 4, 2015.

Photo: Nicole Hester, AP

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9. University of Mississippi

Pictured: Singer Katy Perry tosses corn dogs during a telecast of ESPN's College GameDay in The Grove at the University of Mississippi prior to their NCAA college football game in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014.

There’s New Orleans’ Tulane University, where the students can go wild in the French Quarter. Or "Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day” – a raucous March tradition at the University of Illinois campus in Champagne. The University of Texas at Austin with its famous downtown stretch Sixth Street (aka Dirty Sixth) also claimed a spot on the list.

Playboy releases one of the most well-known “party school” rankings each year. The other eminent list-maker comes from the slightly more high-brow Princeton Review. The catalogs had some overlap this year: The University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin, Syracuse University and Tulane University made both lists.